And you were fully welcome to continue the development of ConsoleKit if you wanted. Slack, on the other hand, can hold all your important logs & metadata hostag

And you were fully welcome to continue the development of ConsoleKit if you wanted. Slack, on the other hand, can hold all your important logs & metadata hostage. Completely different situations. Neither of your examples could sanely be described as shady or underhanded - neither of them gave the producer a business advantage it wouldn't otherwise have. FOSS developers don't owe anything to you - they don't have to continue to develop your favourite feature for the rest of their lives. They do however give you the freedom to do that yourself.